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Yes: 160 • No: 0
LouisianaHB 242025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
RETIREMENT/TEACHERS: Provides relative to the optional retirement plan in the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (EN SEE ACTUARIAL NOTE APV)
Sponsored By: Tony Bacala (Republican)
Signed by Governor
Retirement
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
More retirement choices for Louisiana college staff
The law expands Optional Retirement Plan eligibility to similar classes of employees across all postsecondary schools. Active contributing members have seven years after first employment, up from five, to join Louisiana’s regular teachers’ pension plan. That choice cannot be reversed. Former Optional Retirement Plan participants also gain a pension choice when returning to active employment. They must not have been actively employed in a covered job on June 30, 2024; participation applies going forward.
Older Louisiana hires gain Social Security choice
Older workers starting their first job covered by the Teachers’ Retirement System of Louisiana can choose Social Security instead. Workers qualify at age 60 or older. Workers ages 55–59 qualify if they have earned at least 40 quarters of Social Security coverage. The choice is available at first employment in a covered job.
Retirement fee cap shifts employer responsibility
Beginning July 1, 2026, the law limits employees’ share of Optional Retirement Plan administrative fees. Employees pay no more than half the actual fee or 0.5% of pay, whichever is less. Employers must cover the remaining administrative fee.
Louisiana retirement participants gain advisory updates
The law creates a nine-member Optional Retirement Plan Advisory Committee. It gives information and feedback to the teachers’ retirement board and provides regular updates to plan participants. The commissioner of higher education, or a designee, also joins the board as an ex officio member.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Tony Bacala
Republican • House
Cosponsors
Barbara Carpenter
Democratic • House
Barbara Reich Freiberg
Republican • House
Roy Daryl Adams
Democratic • House
Jack McFarland
Republican • House
Jason Brian DeWitt
Republican • House
Jason Hughes
Affiliation unavailable
Jerome Zeringue
Republican • House
Larry A. Bagley
Republican • House
R. Dewith Carrier
Republican • House
Rhonda Gaye Butler
Republican • House
Shane Mack
Republican • House
Stephanie H. Berault
Republican • House
Timothy P. Kerner
Republican • House
Vanessa Caston LaFleur
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/27/2025
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
Yes: 36 • No: 0
House vote • 5/12/2025
Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
Yes: 97 • No: 0
House vote • 5/6/2025
Reported with amendments
Yes: 16 • No: 0
House vote • 4/24/2025
Reported with amendments
Yes: 11 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 47.
6/4/2025HouseEffective date: 07/01/2025.
6/4/2025HouseSigned by the President of the Senate.
5/29/2025SenateSent to the Governor for executive approval.
5/29/2025HouseEnrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.
5/28/2025HouseRules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
5/27/2025SenateReceived from the Senate without amendments.
5/27/2025HouseReported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.
5/21/2025SenateRead by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
5/20/2025SenateReported favorably.
5/19/2025SenateRead second time by title and referred to the Committee on Retirement.
5/14/2025SenateReceived in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
5/13/2025SenateRead third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. The bill, having received two-thirds vote of the elected members, was finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
5/12/2025HouseScheduled for floor debate on 05/12/2025.
5/8/2025HouseRead by title, amended, ordered reengrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
5/7/2025HouseReported with amendments (16-0).
5/6/2025HouseRead by title, amended, ordered engrossed, recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations.
4/28/2025HouseReported with amendments (11-0).
4/24/2025HouseRead by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Retirement.
4/14/2025HouseFirst appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/28/2025.
2/28/2025HousePrefiled.
2/27/2025HouseUnder the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Retirement.
2/27/2025House
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